| Description | Small explanatory plaque, under glass in wood frame painted dark blue, hand-lettered in black and red ink on paper: "The Lord Mayor's Stow Prize 1939. The Right Hon. Sir Frank Bowater, Lord Mayor of London, placed a new quill pen in the hand of the statue of John Stow at S. Andrew Undershaft in the City of London on April 24th 1939.... The old pen taken from the statue's hand was given by him to the Headmistress of the Harrow County Girl's School. A copy of Stow's "Survey of London" was presented by him to Margaret Bowles as the prize for the best essay on "London's Past and Future" written by a scholar of the Secondary Schools under the Board of Education in the County of Middlesex."; and signed by G. Vernon Willesden, Bishop Rector of S. Andrew Undershaft. |